I just signed up to this forum and noticed alot of posts on a problem I was having. This started happening last night, probly after windows update OR an update of Avast.
Random web sites would not load. IE:
www.google.com would not work.
www.yahoo.com would work.
www.microsoft.com would not work.
I have the 64-bit version of Avast Pro running on Windows XP x64.
80% of the web sites would not work, 20% would work.
I have VMWare installed because I use it as a LAB for working on my MCSE certification.
When, I ran 32-bit windows from inside a virtual machine, I could connect to any website 100%. I then shutdown VMWare and went back to my desktop.
I then ran cmd.exe and used nslookup and ping to test google.com. I manged to ping
www.google.com successfully and managed to resolve the correct ip address of
www.google.com. Yet, when I typed in
www.google.com or the IP address of
www.google.com, I was unable to connect to the website.
I find it intersting that even after a clean install of windows xp, that the problem persists:
"I just re-installed Avast to make sure it wasn't just a corrupt install (via a fresh download) and i'm back to square one!!" -stevieboy84
Stevieboy, did you ONLY install avast after the install? Get back to me on this one, because knowing that the issue is not a virus (becasue a clean install), and is either caused by Windows or Avast!
Notice that we both have a 64-bit OS. I am not home right now, and the error still persists on my computer, I will mess around with avast to see if that fixes the problem.